If you really want a pay rise do this...

mumbles_one

mumbles_one wrote: »

Hi redcard
Do you accept by taking your holiday one day earlier every year you reduce the number of days between holidays???? a yes or no will do

and see what redcard answers

redcard

mumbles_one wrote: »

and see what redcard answers

We did this bit a couple of hours ago. I answered it, he answered it, the whole fricking world understands the answer.

Don't just keep dragging this on and on.

Ask the admin to close this thread while you still have that little bit of dignity left!

JimmyTheWig

mumbles_one wrote: »

lets go through this again. lets assume holiday year is january to december . you start work for the company on jan 1. Work for 10 months then take 22 days holiday in november. you have now worked 10 months and had 1 month holiday. Return to work dec 1 and work another 10 months until end of september and take another 22 days holiday in october. You have just worked 10 months and taken 1 month holiday.Return to work on november 1 and work 10 months until end of august and take 22 days holiday in september . you have worked 10 months and taken 1 month holiday. return to work on october 1 and work 10 months until end of july and take another 22 days holiday in august. just keep on doing this. Your pals at work who take august every year work 11 months and then get 1 month holiday but you only work 10 months and get 1 month holiday. who works more for the same money???neat???
Understand now??????

Right, I gave up at the end of page two, but lets see if I can point out the problem...

Your pals who take august off every year only worked SEVEN months in their first year before their holiday. You worked ten. If that is important to you (and I'm still not _quite_ sure why it is) who's the better off in that year?
After four years, they will have worked an average of (7 + 11 + 11 + 11) / 4 = 40/4 = 10 months between holidays. You will have worked an average of 10 months between holidays.

davidjwest

I think this thread could drag on for a while.

mumbles_one

Apology if anyone has got upset by this thread , for me I have only responded with good humour even though some have hurled insults. I can see that some people read the posts clearly and faced with difficult questions prefer abuse rather than discussion.

mumbles_one

mumbles_one wrote: »

Hi from a thick person???
lets explain again slowly for all those with reading difficulty.

1. Suppose you have a job where you only have 1 day holiday per year
that would mean you work 364 days and get 1 day holiday. Is that clear???
2 . the first year you work 364 days and take 31 december and you realise that it is going to be another 364 days until your next holiday on december 31 . Is that clear???
3. So the second year you take you holiday on 30 december . Is that clear???

so now you have only worked 363 days until your 1 day holiday instead of 364. If you keep moving your holidays a little earlier every year then you work less days between your holidays.

which is better 364 days then 1 day holiday or 363 days then get 1 day holiday???

can I go out now or do I have to explain this more simply???

older posts explain better

geordie_joe

skintc wrote: »

Why has no one else picked up on this? This has to be the funniest post from this entire thread.

I can just picture Paris now, like a ghost town with all the shops boarded up, no people, and a tumble-weed, rolling by.:rotfl:

I was just about to, as I had to go out earlier.

hat post was in response to me saying "No f*cker in the world saves up their holidays and takes the last month of the year off."

However, there are two things wrong with it.

Yes, many people in Paris take August off, and I have no problem with the Scandinavians taking june/july off. But these are tourist destinations and the only people who take those months off are the people who don't make money from tourist, all the shops/bars/hotels etc. are still open as it's their busiest time of year and they make a lot of money in those months.

And the other point is june/july/august are not the end months in the holiday year in those countries, so using them as examples of people who work the first 11 months of the holiday year then take he last month off is COMPLETELY WRONG!

wotsthat

What a bizarre thread - I like it!

Mumbles have you tried to apply your logic to perpetual motion or are you just sticking to creating time and space?

geordie_joe

mumbles_one wrote: »

I can see that some people read the posts clearly and faced with difficult questions prefer abuse rather than discussion.

Unlike you who just ignores any arguments against what you are saying.

As I said earlier, most people don't save up their holidays and take the last month of the holiday year off,. They spread them out over the year so there never is 11 months between holidays to start with.

So you stick to working 10 months before you have a holiday, and the rest of us will stick to spreading them out so we have one every 4 or 5 months. We have our holidays more often, and when we want them, not when the timing of some stupid scheme dictates we must take them.

mumbles_one

wotsthat wrote: »

What a bizarre thread - I like it!

Mumbles have you tried to apply your logic to perpetual motion or are you just sticking to creating time and space?

don't worry , I have plenty more but I wanted to test this one before I book some holidays